page contents Felege Guihon International FGI http://www.guihon.org Combat Desertification through the Protection of the Nile & Its Riparian Wed, 09 May 2012 15:04:35 +0000 en hourly 1 Egyptians will need 50% more water of the Nile in 4 decades while the river will dry under 2 decades due wanton damming http://www.guihon.org/161/egyptians-will-need-50-more-water-of-the-nile-in-4-decades-while-the-river-will-dry-under-2-decades-due-wanton-damming/ http://www.guihon.org/161/egyptians-will-need-50-more-water-of-the-nile-in-4-decades-while-the-river-will-dry-under-2-decades-due-wanton-damming/#comments Tue, 08 May 2012 10:24:55 +0000 Tegegne http://www.guihon.org/?p=161

The Egyptian experts are projecting when their population reaches 150 they would need 50% more waters than today. But today undue damming in the highland plateau of Ethiopia will dry the river within half time they are projecting. Just look the two images at the source of the Nile due to undue damming and irrigation progressively. In the coming two years after the end of the great death dam it will completely dry in the summer time…

How long it will take to fill up the Ethiopian Dictators’ millennium death dam and revive to reach to Egypt. Following the foot step of the Ethiopian mad man the new south Sudan, Uganda, Congo and Rwanda are planning to follow suit his example of developmental destructive water power.

Though Egypt is currently entitled to 55 bcm of the Nile’s total annual flow of around 84 bmc under a treaty with the eight other countries which share the river basin, once damming process reach its apex by the end of 2013 there will be no water to discuss. This is mainly Ethiopia will use almost 70 % of the 87% of the Nile water she is contributing to the great Nile. And all will be used to the commercial farm sold for the land grabbers of India and Saudi Arabia in the water intensive rice farm land in Gambella and Benishengule regions.  ”Should the Nile’s total flow remain constant, Egypt will eventually need some 92 per cent of the 6,695 kilometer-long river’s waters, according to NPI’s estimate.”  Though according to the same projective studies  each Egyptian will have a Nile “stake” of 400 cubic meters in the river’s waters — well below the global water poverty index of 1,000 cubic meters if it continue  to flow at the present rate which impossible. So the Nile is going to the road of destruction not only for Egypt the main stake holder but for all the riparian.

Egypt’s water resources are limited to the Nile River, deep ground water in the Delta, the Western Deserts and Sinai, sporadic rainfall and flash floods while the highland Ethiopia is a water tower with over 13 rivers and lakes.

Agriculture accounts for 85 per cent of water demand, while domestic and industrial use makes up 8 and 6 per cent respectively. The remaining one per cent is used in navigation and hydro-power.

Since 2009 the Ethiopian regime has planned to build over 500 dams and barges all over the country. The worst comes when the Ethiopian dictators started building in 2012 a   mega dam on the Nile despite a long-running row with Egypt. This death dam will stop the Nile’s yearly floods to Egypt by breaking the natural cycle of survival which existed from time immemorial, thus stopping the natural flow of the water breaking the cycle existed long before the making of the Pyramids by creating cataracts.

The one sided approach of the Ethiopian regime not only increase the l salinity like Aswan but will stop its natural flow.

Prof. Muse Tegegne

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Egypt has announced a final effort to re-negotiate the terms of the Cooperative Framework Agreement which apportions water from the Nile River to various basin countries. Since 1929, Egypt has held a near-monopoly on the water, but last year Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda signed the Entebbe Treaty that neither Egypt nor Sudan recognize in order to arrest that monopoly.

At the beginning of April 2011, Ethiopia started construction on the Grand Millennium Dam near Sudan. Egypt asked permission to conduct an assessment to gauge the impact of the 6,000MW hydropower plant on its own water supply, but Ethiopia refused. Almasry Alyoum reports that concerned parties will try one more time to find a fair solution.

Under the terms of the Entebbe Treaty, Nile basin countries will no longer have to ask Egypt’s permission to undertake water diversion projects on the mighty river. Emboldened by this, Ethiopia – which contributes more water to the river’s annual flow than any other country – began construction on a massive dam project.

Egypt sent a 40-person delegation to Uganda in order to persuade President Museveni to oppose the dam project currently underway in Ethiopia’s Benshangul Gumuz state. Egypt’s 85 million inhabitants rely almost exclusively on the Nile for their water needs, while Ethiopia claims that electricity produced by the hydropower project can benefit everyone.

In a last ditch effort to maintain some of its rights to the Nile waters, Egypt’s Water Resources Minister Hussein al-Atfy announced an initiative by the African countries to renegotiate the Nile Basin Framework Agreement.

According to Almasry Alyoum, he said the initiative aims at allowing all people of Nile Basin countries to benefit from the water, and added that international arbitration would be Cairo’s last resort in dealing with this issue.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, in a meeting with the Ethiopian ambassador, expressed a willingness to improve relations between the two countries.

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]]> http://www.guihon.org/149/egypt-holding-tight-to-nile-water-rights/feed/ 0 Dictators of the Horn and the great Lakes have started Damming the Nile waters to death http://www.guihon.org/144/dictators-of-the-horn-and-the-great-lakes-have-started-damming-the-nile-waters-to-death/ http://www.guihon.org/144/dictators-of-the-horn-and-the-great-lakes-have-started-damming-the-nile-waters-to-death/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:47:57 +0000 Tegegne http://www.guihon.org/?p=144

The Nile reperian dictators are damming and preparing to use for commerical farms of their grabbed lands which well lead to the drying  and salination of the Nile water.

Read the following article of the Egyptian  share modeling in the very near future …

 

 

Egypt has long held unrivaled “historic rights” over nearly all of the Nile River’s resources. But now all that could be changing as upstream states like Ethiopia and Burundi seize on Egypt’s post-revolution political uncertainty to finally wrest at least some control of the world’s longest river. The result could be mean dire food and water shortages for Egypt, and maybe another revolution.

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Political uncertainty in post-revolution Egypt is allowing other Nile states to wrest control of the world’s longest river.
A 1959 colonial-era treaty brokered by Great Britain gave Egypt, and to a lesser extent Sudan, unrivaled “historic rights” over nearly all of the Nile River’s resources. But now all that could be changing as upstream states like Ethiopia and Burundi seize on Egypt’s post-revolution political uncertainty to finally wrest at least some control of the world’s longest river.
- ERIN CUNNINGHAM
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As Egypt loses its grip on the Nile and its population soars, food and water scarcity are becoming a serious problem.
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Ethiopia, at Egypt’s expense, plans massive projects to make use of its 900-mile-long section of the Blue Nile.
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Will Egypt’s impending food and water crisis spark another uprising?
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Ethiopians hope to finally wrest some control of the Nile, and its life-giving water, from Egypt.
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